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Albert Mann is a disability activist, an award-winning author for young people, and a proud union member. She has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is the partner liaison for the WNDB Internship Grant Committee. Her work has won the Massachusetts Book Award Honor, the Italian Orbil Prize, the Premio Andersen, been selected for IBBY’s Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities, received a Disability Visibility grant, and been a finalist for the Rodari Prize. Born and raised in New Jersey, she now lives in Queens, New York. 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He is forced to watch the Revolution from his family’s hard scrabble farm in Upstate New York—until a violent raid on his settlement thrusts him into one of the bloodiest battles of the American Revolution, and ultimately, face to face with the enemy. A riveting coming of age story, this book also includes an author’s note and bibliography. Bank Street Best Book for 2017 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People http://jalbertmann.com/what-every-girl-should-know daily 0.75 2024-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fe7f6122482e3922397ee4/1600729714644-NH8QS12IKKIL2U870FE1/WhatEveryGirlShouldKnow_CVR.jpg What Every Girl Should Know - What Every Girl Should Know: Margaret Sanger’s Journey What Every Girl Should Know: Margaret Sanger’s Journey Margaret was determined to get out. She didn’t want to clean the dirty dishes and soiled diapers that piled up day in and day out in her large family’s small home. 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The Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded is not a happy place. The young women who are already there certainly don’t think so. Not Maxine, who is doing everything she can to protect her younger sister Rose in an institution where vicious attendants and bullying older girls treat them as the morons, imbeciles, and idiots the doctors have deemed them to be. Not Alice, either, who was left there when her brother couldn’t bring himself to support a sister with a club foot. And not London, who has just been dragged there from the best foster situation she’s ever had, thanks to one unexpected, life altering moment. Each girl is determined to change her fate, no matter what it takes. 2025 Premio Andersen Prize 2025 Orbil Prize 2025 Finalist for the Rodari Prize 2023 IBBY Selection for Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities Massachusetts Book Award 2021 Honor Book Bank Street Best Book Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People CCBC Choices List Texas TAYSHAS Best Book Awarded the Disability Visibility Grant for 2020 http://jalbertmann.com/media daily 0.75 2024-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fe7f6122482e3922397ee4/1590112940043-FMMVLMNH9O04COO2JY6K/image-asset.jpeg Media http://jalbertmann.com/resources-1 daily 0.75 2021-10-20 http://jalbertmann.com/fix daily 0.75 2024-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fe7f6122482e3922397ee4/1611181855538-SKP4M5T232HNAS1R902L/Fix%2C+final+cover+with+tag+line.jpg Fix - FIX A gritty, moving story of friendship, loss, pain, and addiction Everything was fine before. When Eve and Lidia could hide their physical differences inside goofy Burger Hut costumes. When Lidia shook Eve up and Eve made Lidia laugh. When Lidia was there. Now, after, everything is different. Cut open. Rearranged. Stapled shut. Eve is left alone to recover in unbearable pain, in a body she no longer recognizes. With her only companions being Roxanol, a charismatic telescope, and an infuriating (but cute) neighbor, Eve strikes up a relationship—and makes a pact—with the devil. Sacrificing pieces of a place she doesn’t know for everything to return to a place she does. But what will Eve discover when she unravels her past? Is having Lidia back worth the price? 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Foner (1970) - Primary sources are the absolute best. What did the Panthers think, believe, want? Let them seriously just tell you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fe7f6122482e3922397ee4/36748795-fc0c-4d90-9df3-3f92944aaa1a/51e034DDbHL.jpg Reading List - The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez (2016) - A book that lays bear the reality of what happens in the absence of empathy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56fe7f6122482e3922397ee4/9fd73f2a-aad1-44f5-81fd-0acf24850634/61KbyGZRZvL._SL1000_.jpg Reading List - The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver by Jane Botkin Little (2021) – A young Jane organizes the maids of Denver’s elite households and truly gets hit with everything, including the kitchen sink. 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From 20,000 young seamstresses striking in the early 1900s to Uber drivers organizing for change today, people have learned we’re stronger when we are united. Shift Happens is a smart, funny, and engaging look at the history of the worker actions that brought us weekends, pay equality, desegregation, an end to child labor, and so much more. 2024 Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection SLJ Best Books of the Year Kirkus Best Books of the Year Finalist, Mountain Laurel Book Award 2025-2026, Pennsylvania School Librarians Association Nominee, Green Mountain Book Award 2025-2026, Vermont Department of Libraries